Chapter 1: Introduction to DevOps

Activity 1: CI/CD Pipeline for the DevOps Blog

Solution:

Note

In this solution, Hugo is used to generate website content. Hugo is a popular open-source static site generator that provides speed and flexibility. Documentation and further information is available on the official website: https://gohugo.io

Perform the following steps to complete this activity:

1. Create a file with the name .travis.yml in the master branch of the repository. Configure .travis.yml as follows:

   Use go with version 1.11.x as the Travis-CI worker language:

   language: go
   go:
     - 1.11.x

   Install Hugo (https://GitHub.com/gohugoio/hugo) using the "go get GitHub.com/gohugoio/hugo" command:

   install:
     - go get GitHub.com/gohugoio/hugo

   Install the beautifulhugo theme by creating a themes/beautifulhugo folder and cloning it from the GitHub repository: https://GitHub.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo.git

   Generate blog content with the hugo --theme beautifulhugo command...